Improvement in toy dancers



w. Luussau.

Thy-Dancer.

510,159,325 Patented Feb. 2,1.8 75.

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v the toy figure.

- UNITED STATES WILLIAM L. HUBBELL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TORAYMOND I JENKINS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT m 'rov DANCERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,325, dated February2, 1875; application filed November 24, 1874.

The present invention relates to an improved figure especially adaptedto the mechanism patented as aforesaid, but which figure may be used inother toy dancers.

In figures of this kind it is usual to make loose joints at the knees;hence as the figures are moved up and down the knees frequently bend inthe wrong direction in a very ungraceful manner.

My improvement relates to a figure made with legs jointed at the hips,and at the ankles to feet of a peculiar construction, whereby thedancing figure will move in a more correct manner, and rest either onthe toe, the heel, or flat upon the sole of the foot, and thesemovements of the legs and feet will cause the figure to revolve as themechanism gives to the same a vertical or nearly vertical movement.

In. the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation of Fig. 2 is a section of thehead; and Fig. 3 is an elevation in larger size of one of the feet.

I prefer to make the body a of wood, as being light, and into the same ahole is made for the reception of the wire 11 to the mechanism, as inaforesaid patent. The arms 0 are preferably of composition pressed in amold similar to the composition used for architectural ornaments, andthese arms are attached to the body by wire pins. The wooden bodyterminates as a neck, 6, that is elongated to pass into the compositionhead f, upon which neck the head is glued. The head is made with a holepassing vertically through the same. It is pressed in a mold while thematerialis sufficiently plastic, after which it is allowed to dry andharden. The hole through the head lessens the weight, and to close theupper end of this hole I make use of a cork,

9, that is inserted thereinto, and preferably glued. This cork furnishesthe point of attachment for the hat or bonnet, as the same can besecured by a pin or small tack passed into the cork. At the lower partsof the body, corresponding with the hips, there are wire eyes 0, andsimilar eyes are inserted into the upper ends .of the legs h h. Theselegs are molded and made of composition aforesaid, and withoutknee-joints, and I find that if the wires of the eyes at the top andbottom ends of the legs are pressed into the composition before it driesand 'hardens, they will be held in a very firm manner. The feet are madenearly triangular, with a mortise at the ankle portion over the heel,into which mortise the wire eye 21 at the lower end of the leg ispassed, and a pin, 4, is inserted through the foot and said eye. thefoot hangs loosely, and sufficient motion is allowed for the foot toturn and strike the platform endwise upon the toe, or to rest upon thesole, or upon theheel with the toe pointin g upward. These movements ofthe foot, as the figure is raised and lowered by the wire b, cause thelegs to swing off from the body in different directions, and the foot totouch the platform upon the heel or toe, and the figure to be revolvedmore or less by the leg pushing the body around as the figure descendsafter the foot has touched the platform.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The composition doll-head with the tapering hole passing entirely through the same for receiving the neck 0 andstopper 9, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The toy figure made with feet, in each of which there is a mortise atthe ankle, receiving the eye at the lower end of the leg, said leg beingstiff at the knee, and jointed at the hip to the body, all substantiallyas and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 19th day of November,

WM. L. HUBBELL. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, OHAs. H. SMITH.

The size of the mortise is such that

